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1/81 Research Report 2003-2004 Message from the Director A Research Report 2003-2004 Message from the Director A core purpose of the V&A is 'to enable everyone to enjoy its collections and explore the cultures that created them; and to inspire those who shape contemporary design'. Research on the Museum's holdings plays a central role in our endeavours to fulfill that mission, building on the V&A's reputation as the founding collection of the decorative arts in Britain and one of the world's leading resources for expertise in the field. The Museum strives to foster an active research culture, developing authoritative and accessible outcomes through its galleries, exhibition and publication programmes and its website. It also encourages its staff to contribute to all areas of research, theoretical and practical, at the highest level. This Report, the eighth in a series stretching back to 1990, captures the scope of such activity and demonstrates the V&A's continuing commitment to lead in object-focused research in the histories of design and the decorative arts; to stimulate debate about its subject areas; and to encourage new approaches. Readers will see that research is undertaken by almost all members of the Collections, Conservation and Learning and Interpretation Departments, often in collaboration with external partners from other museums and with peers in the University sector. The Museum has pioneered partnerships with Higher Education Institutions through its: • exchange programme with Sussex University; • long-standing shared postgraduate courses with the RCA; • continuing participation in the AHRC-funded Centre for the Study of the Domestic Interior with the RCA and the Bedford Centre for the History of Women at Royal Holloway; • relationship with the University of London (which co-hosted the key symposium A Casa: People, Spaces and Objects in the Renaissance Interior with the Harvard University Centre for Italian Renaissance Studies in Florence in June 2004); and • its joint fellowship schemes (with, for example, the University of Brighton, the University of the Arts London, Buckinghamshire Chilterns University College and the University of the West of England). The fruits of these latter collaborations can be seen in such groundbreaking contemporary 1/81 exhibitions and publications as Black British Style (2004), Brilliant: Lights and Lighting (2004); and Spectres: When Fashion Turns Back (2004). Besides supporting the Museum's Contemporary Programme with its focus on present cultures and the creative industries, research also provides a critical underpinning for the broader strategic initiatives that constitute the V&A's FuturePlan, ensuring that major exhibition and gallery re-developments are built on cutting-edge scholarship. Research for the British Galleries, which featured so prominently in the 2000- 2002 Report, continues to generate new outputs. The associated book Design and the Decorative Arts: Britain 1500-1900 was re-published in 2004 in three volumes focusing on the Tudor and Stuart, Georgian and Victorian periods. In 2003-4 research for the important exhibitions Gothic: Art for England 1400-1547 and Encounters: The Meeting of Asia & Europe 1500-1800 and the touring exhibition Palace and Mosque: Islamic Art for the Middle East, not only produced landmark outputs in their own right, but also laid down significant markers in the journey towards the future opening of the Medieval and Renaissance Galleries (2010) and the Jameel Gallery of the Islamic Middle East (2006). These are just a few highlights of the 2003-4 Report. In the next Report (2005,2006), to be published in Spring 2007 we plan to be able to provide a fuller commentary on the processes and developing ideas that accompany research activity at the V&A through the publication of a new annual V&A Research Bulletin, designed to complement the more quantitative approach of the Reports. Mark Jones 2/81 Books, Contributions to Books & Articles 3rd to 14th Centuries Kennedy, Kirstin. Alfonso's miraculous book patronage, politics and performance in the 'Cantigas de Santa Maria'. In: Nils Holger Petersen, ed. The appearances of medieval rituals: the play of construction and modification. Turnhout: Brepols, 2004. pp.199-212. ISBN 2503515134. Kennedy, Kirstin. On chess, chests and kingship: two miniatures of Alfonso X of Castile in the Libro de ajedrez, dados y tablas (1283). In: Antonella Braida and Giuliana Pieri, Image and word: reflections of art and literature from the Middle Ages to the present. Oxford: Legenda: 2003. pp.51-75. ISBN 1900755696. Watson, Rowan. Illuminated manuscripts and their makers. London: V&A Publications, 2003. 144 p., ill. (chiefly col.). ISBN 1851773851. Watson, Rowan. Manual of dynastic history or devotional aid?: Eleanor of Toledo's Book of Hours. In: David S. Areford and Nina A. Rowe, eds. Excavating the medieval image: manuscripts, artists, audiences: essays in honour of Sandra Hindman. Aldershot: Ashgate, 2004. pp.179-196. ISBN 0754631435. Watson, Rowan. Les manuscrits enluminés & leurs créateurs. Méolans-Revel: Éditions Grégoriennes, c2004. 154 p., ill. (chiefly col.). Based on the collection in the National Art Library, V&A. Translation of: Illuminated manuscripts and their makers. London: V&A Publications, 2003. ISBN 2914338082. Watson, Rowan. Stolen treasure [A leaf from the Sforza Book of Hours recently acquired by the British Library]. Art Quarterly, winter 2004, pp.26-29. Williamson, Paul. Medieval and Renaissance stained glass in the Victoria and Albert Museum. London: V&A Publications, 2003. 159 p., col. ill. ISBN 1851774033. Williamson, Paul. On the date of the Symmachi panel and the so-called Grado Chair ivories. In: Christopher Entwistle, ed., Through a glass brightly: studies in Byzantine and medieval art and archaeology presented to David Buckton. Oxford: Oxbow Books, 2003. pp.47-50. ISBN 842170902. 3/81 15th & 16th Centuries Ajmar, Marta. Talking pots: strategies for producing novelty and the consumption of printed pottery in Renaissance Italy. In: Marcello Fantoni, Louisa C. Matthew and Sara F. Matthews-Grieco, eds. The art market in Italy: 15th-17th centuries. Modena: F.C. Panini, c2003. pp.55-64. ISBN 8882905772. Browne, Clare. (Catalogue entries). In: Susan Doran, ed. Elizabeth: the exhibition at the National Maritime Museum. London: Chatto & Windus in association with the National Maritime Museum. 2003. Published to accompany an exhibition at the National Maritime Museum, Greenwich, 1st May - 14th Sept. 2003. pp. 84, 106 & 226. ISBN 0701174765. Campbell, Marian. Catalogue entries nos. 10, 101, 105, 108, 112-113, 134, 138, 179-184, 188, 190-192, 194, 304-305 & 339. In: Richard Marks and Paul Williamson, eds. Gothic: art for England, 1400-1547. London: V&A Publications, 2003. pp.153, 239, 242, 244, 251, 271, 276-277, 312-316, 318, 320-321, 323, 414-415 & 448. ISBN 1851774017. Campbell, Marian. The table and feasting. In: Richard Marks and Paul Williamson, eds. Gothic: art for England, 1400-1547. London: V&A Publications, 2003. pp.309-311. ISBN 1851774017. Church, Rachel. Catalogue entry no. 187. In: Richard Marks and Paul Williamson, eds. Gothic: art for England, 1400-1547. London: V&A Publications, 2003. p.318. ISBN 1851774017. Davies, Glyn. The culture of relief in late medieval Tuscany. In: Penelope Curtis, ed. Depth of field: the place of relief in the time of Donatello. Leeds: Henry Moore Institute, 2004. Catalogue of an exhibition held Henry Moore Institute, Leeds, 23 Sept. 2004-27 Mar. 2005. pp.8-17. ISBN 1900081393. Evans, Mark. Dürer and Italy revisited: the German connection. In: Giulia Bartram, ed. Albrecht Dürer and his legacy. London: British Museum, 2004. (British Museum occasional papers; 130). http://www.thebritishmuseum.ac.uk/researchpublications/durer.html Hildyard, Robin. Catalogue entries nos. 193 & 199. In: Richard Marks and Paul Williamson, eds. Gothic: art for England, 1400-1547. London: V&A Publications, 2003. pp.322 & 325. ISBN 1851774017. Hildyard, R. J. C. (Catalogue entry). In: Susan Doran, ed. Elizabeth: the exhibition at the National Maritime Museum. London: Chatto & Windus in association with the National Maritime Museum. 2003. Published to accompany an exhibition at the National Maritime Museum, Greenwich, 1st May - 14th Sept. 2003. p.101. ISBN 0701174765. 4/81 Hildyard, Robin. John Dwight. In: Michael Snodin and John Styles, Design & the decorative arts: Tudor and Stuart Britain 1500-1714. London: V&A Publications, 2004. pp. 134-135. ISBN 1851774203. Humphrey, Nick. (Catalogue entry). In: Susan Doran, ed. Elizabeth: the exhibition at the National Maritime Museum. London: Chatto & Windus in association with the National Maritime Museum. 2003. Published to accompany an exhibition at the National Maritime Museum, Greenwich, 1st May - 14th Sept. 2003. p.98. ISBN 0701174765. Humphrey, Nick. The early Stuart court. In: Michael Snodin and John Styles, Design & the decorative arts: Tudor and Stuart Britain 1500-1714. London: V&A Publications, 2004. pp.88-89. ISBN 1851774203. Hunt, Katherine. Catalogue entries nos. 1-8, 11-29 & 34-45. In: Penelope Curtis, ed. Depth of field: the place of relief in the time of Donatello. Leeds: Henry Moore Institute, 2004. pp.74-78, 78-91 & 95-104. ISBN 1900081393. Jopek, Norbert. Dürer and sculpture. In: Giulia Bartrum, ed. Albrecht Dürer and his legacy. London: British Museum, 2004. (British Museum occasional papers; 130). http://www.thebritishmuseum.ac.uk/researchpublications/durer.html Kennedy, Kirsten. Un códice del siglo XIII que no se copió para Alfonso X: el 'Libro complido en los indizios de las estrellas', Biblioteca Nacional Madrid, MS 3065. In: Pedro M. Cátedra and María Luisa López-Vidrirero, La memoria de los libros: estudios sobre la historia del escrito y de la lectura en Europa y América. Salamanca: Instituto de la Historia del Libro y de la Lectura, 2004. pp.177-187. ISBN 8493350427. Liefkes, Reino. Catalogue entries nos. 75 & 166-167. In: Richard Marks and Paul Williamson, eds. Gothic: art for England, 1400-1547. London: V&A Publications, 2003. pp.208 & 300-301. ISBN 1851774017. Miller, Elizabeth. Prints as sources for design. In: Michael Snodin and John Styles, Design & the decorative arts: Tudor and Stuart Britain 1500-1714.
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